IBM PureFlex System
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The IBM PureFlex System is designed to streamline IT infrastructure by integrating flexibility, efficiency, and built-in expertise across compute, storage, and networking components. It addresses the challenges of complexity and resource management by automating processes and enabling rapid deployment of services, while ensuring scalability for cloud computing. This system allows organizations to focus on innovation rather than maintenance, ultimately improving responsiveness to business needs and market opportunities.
IBM PureFlex System
- 1. IBM PureFlex System The infrastructure system with integrated expertise
- 2. 2 IBM PureFlex System IT is moving to the strategic center of business Over the last 100 years information technology has moved from a specialized tool to a pervasive influence on nearly every aspect of life. From tabulating machines that simply counted with Optimize Innovate mechanical switches or vacuum tubes to the first programmable computers, IBM has been a part of this growth, while always helping customers solve problems. Today, as the planet has become smarter, IT is a constant part of business and of our Accelerate Consolidate Cloud lives. IBM expertise in delivering solutions—solutions across infrastructure, middleware and applications—has helped the planet become smarter. And as organizations seek to extract more value from their data, business processes and other key investments, IT is moving to the strategic center of business. Current IT models offer a range of approaches: you can use the flexibility of general purpose systems to tune your own systems, Today, the IT systems we all depend on must adapt and perform optimizing them for the business environment. But the time, in the face of constant change and growing complexity in the effort and skills this approach demands can be significant. You business environment. These factors place enormous strain on maintain your own experts, dedicated to tuning these systems. traditional computing models. Businesses must drive innovation On the other end of the spectrum are appliances—purpose-built and address new opportunities faster and better than ever before. systems that are designed to be easy to deploy and manage. But Users in all realms of their lives—business, personal, appliances can limit your ability to adapt to changes in your entertainment—are raising their expectation levels for IT. They business. Cloud computing is another option, deploying want their needs to be met now and they want to specify how applications on flexible, pooled computing resources. But cloud those needs are met. IT must be able to meet these services can create a shared dependence where you don’t have full expectations—adapting to new requirements quickly, growing control over your own data assets. capabilities elastically, and still meeting basic reliability and affordability demands.
- 3. 3 to—and the ability to take advantage of—broad expertise and proven best practices in systems management, applications, “Over the years our IT systems have become hardware maintenance and more. complex and difficult to manage, and as a consequence IT is increasingly finding itself in the A new category of IT systems: expert integrated systems position of being a barrier to innovation rather The time has come for a new category of systems: systems with than an enabler of it.”1 integrated expertise that combine the flexibility of general purpose system, the elasticity of cloud and the simplicity of an —Gary Barnett, the Bathwick Group, The road to Smarter Computing appliance tuned to the workload—fundamentally changing the experience and economics of IT. IBM PureSystems are the first family of systems in this category, offering: Many organizations find they are spending too much time, ●● Built-in expertise: capturing and automating what experts money and effort simply “keeping the lights on” which prevents do—from the infrastructure to the application them from putting the effort you want into innovation: ●● Integration by design: designed together, the deeply integrated and tuned hardware and software is delivered in a ●● More than 70 percent of IT budgets are spent on operations ready-to-go, workload-optimized system and maintenance2 ●● Simplified experience: making every part of the IT lifecycle ●● When we do bring new capabilities on board—it takes too easier with management integration across the entire system long and a broad ecosystem of optimized solutions, all designed to ●● Complexity in IT solutions is inhibiting change and work with your existing IT investments adaptation Expert integrated systems are more than a static stack of well- The result? You can’t deliver new business innovation at a pace tuned components—a server, some storage, networking and that meets the demands of the marketplace. To meet today’s database software, serving a fixed application at the top. Instead, demands, you need a solid foundation of server, storage, these systems are based on “patterns of expertise” which can networking and software resources that can quickly and dramatically improve the responsiveness of the business. automatically adapt to changing conditions. You need access
- 4. 4 IBM PureFlex System Patterns of expertise help deliver value simply and ●● Simplicity: You need a less complex environment. Patterns of efficiently expertise help you easily consolidate diverse servers, storage Patterns of expertise can automatically balance, manage and and applications onto an easy to manage, integrated system. optimize the elements necessary—from the underlying hardware ●● Control: Optimized patterns of expertise accelerate cloud resources up through the middleware and software—to help implementations to lower risk by improving security and deliver and manage today’s modern business processes, services reducing human error. and applications. They do so by encapsulating, into a repeatable and deployable form, proven best practices and expertise gained Expert integrated systems are formed from patterns of expertise from decades of optimizing the deployment and management of that represent the collective knowledge of thousands of data centers, software infrastructures and applications around the deployments, established best practices, innovative thinking, world. These patterns aren’t just a blueprint or set of instructions IT industry leadership, and the distilled expertise of business to help you—the expertise is built in and ready to help you partners and solution providers. These building blocks span achieve: compute, storage, networking and management resources. There are three types of patterns: ●● Agility: As companies look to innovate to bring products and services to market faster, they need fast time-to-value. ●● Infrastructure patterns bridge the base system infrastructure Expertise built into a solution eliminates manual steps, elements like servers, storage, network, virtualization and automates delivery and supports innovation. management ●● Efficiency: To reduce costs and conserve valuable resources, ●● Platform patterns support the middleware—database, you need to get the most out of your systems with energy application servers and more efficiency; simple management and fast, automated response ●● Application patterns bring in expertise at the business to problems. Built-in expertise optimizes your critical business application level applications to help you get the most out of your investments.
- 5. 5 IBM PureSystems A PureFlex System includes integrated patterns of expertise Combining advanced IBM hardware and software along with designed to automate and optimize the deployment and patterns of expertise, IBM PureSystems are available in two types maintenance of your workloads. Deployment expertise can of expert integrated systems: accelerate your time to value up to 100 times versus traditional systems3. Consolidation and management expertise from ●● Infrastructure systems: preintegrated compute, storage, thousands of successful data center optimizations drives networking, virtualization and management automation to significantly reduce manual processes that ●● Platform systems: optimized middleware preintegrated on consumes too many staff hours. Optimization expertise also an infrastructure system allows your infrastructure to flex to address unexpected demands without requiring expensive surplus capacity. With expertise built directly into the systems, you staff will be able to focus on driving innovation for your business, instead of This system is designed to provide a simplified experience and devising, testing and tuning custom integrated solutions. reduce IT complexity without compromising the flexibility you need. By delivering both simplicity and flexibility in a system Designed for the cloud, these systems are based on open with integrated expertise, you can rapidly deploy IT services and architectures for ease of integration with existing environments. keep them running at the performance levels your business The end result is a simplified experience, from system setup and demands while still managing cost. solution deployment and through to day-to-day management and ongoing enhancements and upgrades. Simplicity, control, efficiency and agility The power of a PureFlex System is the combination of a IBM PureFlex System virtualized, open architecture that provides choice along with An IBM PureFlex System combines compute, storage, deep integration and dynamic and simple management from a networking, virtualization and management into a single single vantage point. These solutions deliver built-in infrastructure system that is expert at sensing and anticipating virtualization across compute, storage and networking within the resource needs to optimize your infrastructure. system, so you get superior automation and simple workload optimization. Open and flexible, a PureFlex System is designed
- 6. 6 IBM PureFlex System to work with existing investments. And PureFlex Systems offer a alerts based on resource thresholds and automate responses to choice of system architectures, operating systems and many events. When more intervention is needed, you can find hypervisors, so you can carefully suit your solution to your detailed information on the system as a whole from a single workloads. This architecture is designed to offer you four key interface. benefits: Control Simplicity A PureFlex System is designed to give you a simplified A PureFlex System ships as a comprehensive, preintegrated experience so you get control and choice without increasing infrastructure system designed to be deployed in hours. As a complexity. You aren’t limited to a single architecture or single system that is integrated by design, a PureFlex System is simpler vendor’s middleware; you can choose from a selection of servers, by nature: operating systems and hypervisors, and design systems truly optimized for the needs of your business. You can run and ●● Components are configured to work together to optimize optimize a broad range of workloads on a PureFlex System, and performance you can adapt when your business needs change. ●● Management integration from a single console streamlines administration, enabling users to provision, deploy and This combination of choice and control gives you an ideal monitor resources and workloads platform for consolidation. No matter what architectures and ●● Based on patterns of expertise, the system can also operating systems you rely on now, you can consolidate the intelligently optimize workloads and recommend the best workloads from many resource-consuming servers onto a single, resources to support new workloads, reducing manual effort efficient PureFlex System. You can also consolidate storage into your PureFlex System and virtualize storage across other storage Key tasks are designed to be simpler. Administrators can systems you might already have. And you control it all from a provision a new virtual machine or deploy a predefined image single unified interface. Because the system is open, it can fit into from an image library with the click of a button. From a single almost any existing infrastructure, supplementing current needs interface, you can manage workloads across physical and virtual and replacing systems as they are retired. You choose the pace of resources, spanning multiple architectures, hypervisors and your implementation. operating systems. System administrators can create customized
- 7. 7 With the powerful yet easy-to-use management interface, But this integration also extends to system availability. For administrators can manage both physical and virtual resources— example, the system can proactively sense an impending even multiple systems. You can define a collection of virtual hardware failure. With built-in expertise, it can then relocate server, storage and networking resources for a specific workload workloads that depend on that hardware, giving an administrator and manage that collection as a single resource. For example, an the opportunity to replace the failing hardware without SAP landscape—the SAP database, application resources, and downtime. These kinds of capabilities are designed to give you associated development and test resources—can be defined as a enterprise-class availability while still giving you the simplicity of single workload. an appliance. Efficiency The PureFlex System is also designed to improve efficiency in IBM infused the expertise gained from its development of server, system management. The combination of integrated storage and networking systems into the PureFlex System so you infrastructure and advanced systems management capabilities are get high resource utilization, reliability and performance. designed to eliminate management and administration costs, so Integration by design means that you get efficiency on all levels you can redirect your experts for more important business of system design. priorities. Some key capabilities include: ●● Deep physical integration shrinks the IT footprint, saving ●● Automated processes triggered by events help simplify valuable data center floor space and requiring less energy for management and reduce repetitive administrative tasks operations ●● Integrated service management can speed the test and ●● Tuning to the task helps drive greater performance and deployment of applications improve IT economics ●● Centralized management and deep integration can ●● Dynamic resource allocation allows the system to adapt to dramatically cut down on skills and training required for handle workload spikes, reducing the need for purchasing managing and deploying the system additional resources ●● Virtualization support for not only compute, but also storage ●● Fewer cables, built-in networking, preloaded virtualization and networking assets enables workload mobility and and factory integration give you a simple package that can be automated provisioning installed and running in hours
- 8. 8 IBM PureFlex System Agility A PureFlex System offers simplified The PureFlex System was “born virtualized” to offer acquisition extraordinary agility and make your solution ready for cloud The simplicity of a PureFlex System begins with acquisition. You computing. Through the centralized management capabilities, can choose one of three preintegrated, optimized configurations you can control virtualized compute, storage and networking as your starting point. Your solution ships to you as a complete, resources, and built-in expertise allows you to automate their tested package of compute, storage and networking resources on provisioning. This means you can rapidly deploy new services, which you and IBM Business Partners can customize a solution. speeding time to market and improving responsiveness to With built-in patterns of expertise for deployment, management changing business conditions. And this flexibility also helps you and optimization—including cloud capabilities—to simplify key protect your IT investment by addressing IT and business needs tasks across all of your IT resources, your system is designed to now and into the future—at a rate and pace of adoption that you deploy quickly and be easy to manage. You can select the control. capabilities you need based on your target workload and environment—each configuration is available with your choice of For example, if your software development organization needed POWER7-based or Intel processor-based compute nodes. to rapidly build up and tear down development and test environments, you could quickly provision such environments Express and deploy application images from an internal image library in The Express configuration is designed for small and medium seconds. This speed and agility supports dramatically increased businesses and is the most affordable entry point into a PureFlex business velocity so you can respond quickly to IT and business System. needs and take advantage of marketplace opportunities. Standard And this value goes beyond IBM. There are tens of thousands of The Standard configuration is optimized for application servers applications supported by the available hypervisors and operating with supporting storage and networking and is designed to systems available on the PureFlex System. Many key applications support your key ISV solutions. have been optimized for the PureFlex System so you can get built-in expertise not just from IBM but from IBM Business Enterprise Partners as well. Expertise in tuning, configuration and The Enterprise configuration is optimized for scalable cloud optimization of these applications can be built into your system deployments and has built-in redundancy for highly reliable and so you get fast application deployments, improved application resilient operation to support your critical applications and cloud performance, and faster application upgrades. services.
- 9. 9 No-compromise building blocks – Compute nodes integrated by design Taking advantage of the full capabilities of POWER7 processors The PureFlex System is built from no-comprise building blocks or Intel processors, the PureFlex System compute nodes are based on reliable IBM technology that support open standards designed to offer the performance you need for your critical and offer confident roadmaps. Your PureFlex System is designed applications. With support for a range of hypervisors, operating for multiple generations of technology, supporting your workload systems and virtualization environments, the compute nodes today and ready for the future demands of your business. provide the foundation for: Management ●● Virtualization solutions IBM Flex System™ Manager is designed to optimize the physical ●● Database applications and virtual resources of your IBM PureFlex System while ●● Infrastructure support simplifying and automating repetitive tasks. From easy system ●● Line of business applications set-up procedures with wizards and built-in expertise, to consolidated monitoring for all of your resources—compute, Storage storage, networking, virtualization and energy—Flex System The storage capabilities of a PureFlex System allow you to gain Manager provides core management functionality along with advanced functionality with storage nodes in your system while automation. It’s an ideal solution that allows you to reduce taking advantage of your existing storage infrastructure through administrative expense and focus your efforts on business advanced virtualization. innovation. From a single user interface you get: Your PureFlex System simplifies storage administration with a ●● Intelligent automation single user interface for all your storage with a management ●● Resource pooling console that is integrated with the comprehensive management ●● Improved resource utilization system. This allows you to virtualize third-party storage with ●● Complete management integration non-disruptive migration of the current storage infrastructure. ●● Simplified setup You can also take advantage of intelligent tiering so you can balance performance and cost for your storage needs. The system also supports local and remote replication and snapshots for flexible business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
- 10. 10 IBM PureFlex System Networking Decades of experience delivering With a range of available adapters and switches to support key essential IT network protocols, you can configure your PureFlex System to fit With decades of experience helping clients around the world in in your infrastructure while still being ready for the future. The almost every industry transform their businesses, IBM can help networking resources in the PureFlex System are standards- you take the next step in your smarter computing journey. We’ve based, flexible and fully integrated into the system so you get invested billions of dollars on research and development of no-compromise networking for your solution. Network systems, software and processes and we’ve taken the knowledge, resources are virtualized and managed by workload. And these expertise and technology gained from that experience and capabilities are automated and optimized to make your network investment and put it into our solutions. And we do all of this more reliable and simpler to manage. Key capabilities include: with a commitment to open standards so you are free to make the choices you need to make—not only to integrate with other ●● Supports the networking infrastructure you have today, elements of your own environment, but the vast network of including Ethernet, Fibre Channel and InfiniBand systems that are part of your extended network of partners, ●● Offers industry-leading performance with 1 Gb, 10 Gb and customers and suppliers. 40 Gb Ethernet; 8 Gb and 16 Gb Fibre Channel and FDR InfiniBand With a broad ecosystem of partners with technical and industry ●● Provides pay-as-you-grow scalability so you can add ports and expertise and the unique ability and skill to integrate it all bandwidth when needed together for you—along with an unwavering commitment to your success—you can rely on IBM and your IBM PureFlex Infrastructure System. The Flex System Enterprise Chassis is the foundation of a PureFlex System, supporting intelligent workload deployment For more information and management for maximum business agility. The 14-node, To learn more about the IBM Pure FlexSystem family, visit: 10U chassis delivers high-performance connectivity for your ibm.com/ibm/puresystems or contact your IBM representative integrated compute, storage, networking and management or IBM Business Partner resources. The chassis is designed to support multiple generations of technology and offers independently scalable resource pools for higher utilization and lower cost per workload.
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